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Old 08-15-2014, 07:26 PM
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Originally Posted by billethkid View Post

I still want to know where the rocket launchers and tanks are being utilized?
I have corrected my OP. I meant to say grenade launchers.
(A Google search will identify those departments with the launchers.)

Here is the tank.

In Montgomery County, Texas, the sheriffs department owns a $300,000 pilotless surveillance drone, like those used to hunt down al Qaeda terrorists in the remote tribal regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan. In Augusta, Maine, with fewer than 20,000 people and where an officer hasnt died from gunfire in the line of duty in more than 125 years, police bought eight $1,500 tactical vests. Police in Des Moines, Iowa, bought two $180,000 bomb-disarming robots, while an Arizona sheriff is now the proud owner of a surplus Army tank. - Source, Local Cops Ready for War With Homeland Security-Funded Military Weapons - The Daily Beast

I think the bottom line is that a whole lot of military grade equipment and firepower is now in the hands of local police departments. Good or bad is up to you.
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